Categoria: English

Summary List of abbreviations 9 Presentation 13 Introduction 19 1 Background to US Trade Policy 27 1.1 The international economic order in reconstruction and the nascent regime of GATT 34 1.2 Domestic criticism of State Department internationalism in GATT negotiations 43 2 The costs of the US solar position and the free trade option in…

Maria Helena de Moura Neves publishes real-life grammar lessons In an unparalled piece of work, linguist exposes the fundaments and the grammatical norms of everyday texts There is no “grammar world” or “real world,” with doctrine on one side and real life on the other. The “world of grammar” must be seen as the same…

Introduction 13 Presentation 17 PART I – BASIC CONCEPTS language and metalanguage 33 classes and units 53 functions and processes 81 use, standard(s) and linguistic variation 131 PART II – CLASSES AND FUNCTIONS verb / predicate 149 noun / noun phrase 21911 adjective / adjective phrase 277 adverbs / adverb phrase 343 definite article 403…

A Philosopher Looks for a Way to Respond to a Deceptively Simple Question: Is There Such a Thing as “Brazilian Philosophy”? Guided by that question, Ivan Domingues produces an imposing metaphilosophical essay, which shed a great deal of light on the history of ideas in Brazil and on the nation cultural formation “Is there a…

Summary PREFACE 1 FIRST STEP – THE METAPHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENT FOR A NATIONAL PHILOSOPHY: FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM AND INTRODUCTION OF THE TIME FRAME CONCEPT 17 1. Introduction / 2. The argument for national philosophies / 3. Different experiences of doing philosophy and the question of the originality of a national philosophy / 4. Five models…

Historian recollects lives of elite family housewifes during the Brazilian Colonial period in the state of Minas Gerais Author researches activities, family relationships and illnesses among other aspects of their lives Being a woman in Brazil was never easy, especially in the Colonial period. Looking backwards, it could be inferred that being part of an…

Summary Introduction 7 1 A housewife against the governors and a “sertaneja” rebel 19 2 Two widows and one work 31 3 The pioneer daughters in the hinterland 41 4 The owners and their possessions. Financial problems 45 5 Wives and widows of the Minas Gerais rebels 55 6 Fighting for your assets 61 7…

Luiz Costa Lima recovers the historical and philosophical meanings of melancholy and their links with literature Literary critic undertakes a journey through authors from Hippocrates to show how the concept affected different expressions of thought and arts Melancholy emerges as a Western restlessness for the first time with the Greek physiologist Hippocrates (460 BC -370…

Summary Preface 9 Section I 1 Melancholy, a Western constant? 15 Part One – Outline of a Multi-Secular Story 15 Part Two – An Attempt to Theorization 59 Section II 2 The attic tenant: the animal reports in Franz Kafka 127 3 The waiting: a prelude to Samuel Beckett 229 References 349 Index 359

Introductory literature work by Marisa Lajolo is 30 years old and is reinvigorated This text, for its tasteful literary tone, is by itself among the territories explored throughout the pages This book is addressed to all who are interested in literature and have always wondered what it is and how many senses and worlds can…